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Definition of Ineffableness
1. n. The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
Definition of Ineffableness
1. Noun. The quality or state of being ineffable. ¹
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Definition of Ineffableness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineffableness
Literary usage of Ineffableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"Ineffableness is held to indicate grasp of thought ; taciturnity to be the cloak
of profundity. This would be correct if fluency were to supersede accuracy ..."
2. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"... human ambitions merging in the divine purpose, human loves melting in the love
of God, human learning bowing down before the divine ineffableness. ..."
3. Studies in New England transcendentalism by Harold Clarke Goddard (1908)
"A number of passages in his essays are plain attempts to convey something of the
ineffableness of experiences he has undergone, and the very way in which he ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Ineffableness, (in-ef-fa-bl-nes) nj INEFFABLY, (in-ef-fa-ble) ad. In a manner
not to be expressed. INEFFECTIVE, (m-ef-fek'-tiv) a. That which can produce no ..."
5. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1908)
"... of the Muses' Elizium—a use of the common measure not quite reaching the
ineffableness which was (perhaps had been already) introduced by Ben or Donne, ..."
6. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green (1906)
"We may be passing through a period of transition from one mode of expressing them
to another, or perhaps to an admission of their final ineffableness. ..."
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